Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 33

For those of you who didn’t yet know it: My mother is a painter. A serious, professional, respected painter. But she sometimes goes to the funny side as well — Of course, with all due professionalism! So, she gave us this great gift: She took one of our pictures from DebConf12 (from the “Conference Dinner” night), and painted it. Real size even! So, next time you come to our house, even if we are not around to greet you, we will be glad to welcome you to the Residence!

Somewhere back in August or September, I pre-ordered a CuBox-i — A nicely finished, completely hackable, and reasonably powerful ARM system, nicely packaged and meant to be used to hack on. A sweet deal! There are four models (you can see the different models’ specs here) — I went for the top one, and bought a CuBox-i4Pro. That means, I have a US$130 nice little box, with 4 ARM7 cores, 2GB RAM, WiFi, and… well, all of its basic goodies and features. For some more details, look at the CuBox-i block diagram. I got it delivered by early January, and...

I am not (yet?) reporting this as a bug as this happened with a several days old session open, and just while I was upgrading my Sid system, after a long time without doing so (probably since before the vacations started… In December 2013). But I cannot avoid sharing this interesting screenshot. Of course, this does not happen in other browsers. And AFAICT it only happens while reading the Debian Policy (either online or locally, even recoding it to UTF-8). Funniest thing, the Debian policy specifies no Javascript, no stylesheets at all… (Hey, and FWIW… Why is the online copy...

Formally, today is my first day as a student on a formal, scholarized institution — Basically for the first time in almost twenty years! Yes, those that know me know that I aspire to live the life of academia. I have worked at public universities for almost all of my adult life (between 1997 and 1999 I worked at a local ISP and at a private school), and have had a minor academic position («Técnico Académico») for almost ten years. And not having a proper degree limited me from pursuing anything further. Then, in early 2010 I presented the written...

Packt Publishing sent me Krzysztof Nikiński’s «Instant Haml» to do a short blog review… Thing is, and those who read me know, I cannot write short reviews ;-) So lets see how this goes. Packt's Instant series First, as for the format this book follows and the series it fits in: They are very short books. I was the tech reviewer for their «Instant Debian – Build a Web Server», and when I opened it for the first time, I thought I had received only the first chapter. This series’ motto is Short | Fast | Focused — so, yes,...

Ok, so I’m back in Mexico! This year, the best fare I found for travelling to spend the Winter^WSummer season with Regina’s family had an oddity: I usually have a layover at either Santiago de Chile or Lima (Perú) of between 45 minutes and 2 hours, clearly less than enough to do anything. But this time, I had a massive 10 hours layover in Santiago. And spending 10 hours in an airport is far from fun. Specially when you have a good group of friends in town! I visited Chile in 2004 for Encuentro Linux (still before the time I...

In 1994/1995, I spent probably the most unique and memorable year of my life with the people of several Zionist youth movements in Israel, working in a kibutz, learning in Jerusalem… In 1995, after most of my group returned to Mexico, I stuck with the newly arrived South American group of Hashomer Hatzair (plus some affiliates). We were 18-19. And 18-19 years later, here we are: Fabián (from Buenos Aires) and Fabiana (from Montevideo), living in Buenos Aires, with two kids. Regina (from Paraná) and me (from Mexico), living in Mexico, no kids yet. Two couples. Three countries. Four cities....

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